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Eden Lake

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conniedescending · 18/09/2008 11:35

Saw this on Friday and its still kind of haunting me. When it finished DH and I turned to one another and said 'fucking hellllllllllllllll'

Feel like I need to 'talk' about it

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nowirehangers · 18/09/2008 11:57

Tell me more, connie
Have seen it too but no time to post thoughts now
It's powerful stuff

CountessDracula · 18/09/2008 11:59

spooky connie

Pls tell me more!

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conniedescending · 18/09/2008 13:31

beginning to think you may be my alter ego

well it's definitely worth going to see. It's not one of those films you can say you 'enjoyed' because it is so desolate and horrific. It is truly gripping stuff and scary too. It made me feel like I was in that situation and what would I do etc....DH who is very pragmatic and sensible is still saying bits of the film are coming back.

The ending is a shocker but dont want to spoil it for you CD.

It's british and set in the midlands where we live so the accents were spot on making it all the more 'real' to us. The acting is brilliant, particularly the young lads.

all in all very thought provoking, gripping, and quite deep

have fun if you do go

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CountessDracula · 18/09/2008 14:48

We are going
argh

Yes I think I might be
We seem to have met several times in the last couple of days...

CountessDracula · 19/09/2008 11:49

God it was horrfic

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conniedescending · 19/09/2008 13:15

i kept waiting for the happy ending

or at least a neutral one

yes very horrific, the bit when he was tied up and she was watching was dreadful

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CountessDracula · 19/09/2008 13:31

It was horrendous was it not?
Odd for a horror film in that the perpetrator was actually potentially real (as opposed to being a zombie or freddie kruger etc)

It was rather bleak viewing as regards the huge social void between the two groups

CountessDracula · 19/09/2008 13:33

Also saw in a very spooky almost empty cinema with a right weirdo sitting on his own a few rows back

DH went to the loo afterwards and said weirdo was in there. Dh said he kept farting really loudly while having a wee (the weirdo not dh)

GrabShellDude · 19/09/2008 13:37

Is it worth watching then? I like scary in the vein of Dead Calm/River Wild type of scary but not keen if lots of blood and guts.

annoyingdevil · 19/09/2008 13:38

I found it thought provoking and would liked to have discussed it with DP. He however, dismissed it as just another 'video nasty'

FlightAttendent · 19/09/2008 13:42

Bloody hell. I thought this was in 'Baby names'

MadreInglese · 19/09/2008 13:43

LOL FA

What's Eden Lake about then?

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conniedescending · 19/09/2008 13:45

it was just us in the whole cinema when we went and that was weird.

not sure what to suggest grab - have you seen final descent?? Its by the same director if that helps. Its not really river wild but not 28days later either

my DH and I discussed what we'd do if it was us and he said:
a) I would have refused to go camping (probably true) and
b) he would have been able to drive our 4x4 up the bit where they got stuck

def not a video nasty though

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mrsshackleton · 19/09/2008 13:46

it is definitely worth watching but it is not a straight horror film
There is a lot of blood and guts but unlike most nasty films not just blood and guts for the sake of it but to show - imo - the horrific consequences of violence. So far more responsible than most movies where people are just blasted away and - as CD said - the perpetrator is a zombie or whatever and so your logical brain tells you it's just a story. Here you see that people can do terrible things and that their victims suffer rather than just shouting ow, ow and falling down dead. It's not pretty but as annoying said it's very thoughtprovoking
It throws up all sorts of questions about social responsibility, our attitude to teenagers, peer pressure, parenting. It's a very tough watch and very sophisticated by no means your average shlockbuster. It stays with you for a long time afterwards.

stanley123 · 13/11/2008 11:44

i too found this pretty disturbing and shocking , but it also felt that it could also be a real situation and not just a movie?
very thought provoking and well made.

saramoon · 25/01/2009 16:38

I just watched this on DVD last night with DH and woke up at 3 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep as i kept thinking about it, all of it. Was gutted there was no 'happy ending' and it all seemed so real. Very good film, very well made but pretty horrific and yes you do feel that you are there. I kept saying to DH, if that was us, there is no way i would stay there camping and there were a couple of bits that i couldn't watch, like when they burnt that kid as she escaped from the fire.

Fleurlechaunte · 13/03/2009 14:24

Watched this last night. Awful. My friend said "are we expected to believe there are gangs of evil teenagers roaming around like this?" Well yes. Read the papers.

The ending was the worst bit. Just so hopeless but possible in certain circumstances with a certain type of person.

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